>If oh-so-wonderful France can run 70% of its energy off nuclear power, then why can't the US?
Well, if you will look at a map, you may be able to determine that the US quite a bit larger than France, for one thing. Could France generate 70% of the electricity needed by Massachussetts?
"In modern nuclear power plants, the control rods are lifted by electric motors against both their own weight and a powerful spring. A SCRAM rapidly (less than four seconds, by test) releases the control rods from those motors and allows their weight and the spring to drive them into the reactor core, thus halting the nuclear reaction as rapidly as possible."
And hopefully they fit smoothly during and after a quake.
"The reactors aboard an aircraft carrier do more than just run the lights, they can push the whole thing at speeds in excess of 40 knots (how much in excess isn't exactly talked about -- but even that is more than fast enough to water ski behind!"
"Noting that ball-point pens rely on gravity in order to function, the USA spent over 12 million dollars on developing a range of Nitrogen-pressurized ball-point pens which would work in a zero gravity enviroment. The Russians on the other-hand just spent 50 cents on a box of pencils"
In the early Mercury flights, the astronauts used pencils. Very small pieces of graphite posed hazards to safety and to equipment. Besides that, a wooden and graphite pencil is a nice chunk of fuel for a fire in the oxygen-rich atmosphere of a space capsule. An independent developer made the "space pen", with an all-metal casing and ink with a very high flash point. These pens were used throughout the Apollo and STS missions, on the ISS, and are used on all Russian space fights as well.
No "12 million dollars" was ever spent by NASA. Fisher, the developer of the pen, produced them independently, and the cost to NASA was about $3.00 a piece. The product had commercial success among the earthbound public. There's one in my desk drawer as a matter of fact.
>Exactly. Anyone who, knowing the damage caused by eating too much (3000+ deaths per day in the US) continues to >shovel food into their mouth like some sort of grotesque freak has got to be missing a few brain cells.
>Working 80-100 hours a week couldn't possibly be a cause. Not that that sort of thing is, you know, relatively >common in the industry, or anything.
So, a financial manager in an insurance adjusting firm that works 80 hours a week and travels 25% of the time is somehow superior to a software developer who gets up at 6:30, drives to an office building across town, returns at 5:00 PM, where he begins to work on the side project that he hopes will lead to independence from the company job and into his own business?
The real problem is that these guys end up marrying some woman who has no serious career bundled with some passion for gaining an independent self-driven new career.
It has little to do with the career being "IT."
I have seen the same phenomenon among musicians and cabinet makers.
Marry a scientist. Someone who is genuinely driven by a legitimate research need. Then, instead of the scenario where one spouse is maybe working at some mindless job, unable to understand the other person with a job that drives a genuine passion, you have an equitable situation. One partner is trying to develop something seriously important in the IT world and gain economic freedom, and the other partner is trying to make a breakthrough in understanding the myolin sheath in order to end spinal paralysis. Just an example.
Marry someone who works part time in a bookstore, and you've got a very desperately bored spouse, with no schema by which to possibly understand how someone could have a career that one could actually be sincerely passionate about.
It probably isn't even legally enforceable to deny running as a guest OS on a VM. I would expect them to be forced to specify, very specifically, the platforms which are acceptable, rather than make a general rule against like the VM one.
However, when I use VMWare under Linux, I generally use Windows 2000, in separately configured guest installs that are tuned to specific applications. (I find this to be far better (BETTER!) than running the OS natively on the same system, because I can tweak things to a degree that I would never attempt on a base install.)
The main application where I do run Windows, I run XP/SP2, and I could be persuaded to move to Vista here -- I have a set of hosts that are used for audio production. Because the applications I run are targetted for Windows, and because audio production (especially synthesis) does not generally work under any sort of emulation (not really a compatability problem so much as one of timing) I run Windows. I turn off almost every service. If Vista delivers legitimate improvements for a studio PC, I will adopt it. Now, granted, it will doubtless be my MSDN license version which probably will have lighter restrictions than the OEM version being described in TFA, but this is where and why I am a Windows user.
Please don't point me at linux-sound.com or Agnula. I'm into that stuff too, but it does not yet give me what I would need to move away from Windows (and neither does OSX as yet.)
Anyone who things SPAM is spicy would die if they ever ate NYC hot dog mustard or authentic Cajun food. They would probably die if they even entered the room with West Indies Flambeau sauce.
I hope the people who make the DVD player software, and the video card makers, and the people who market their PCs as home-theatre devices, all gang up and put the smack down on distributors who use this format.
A state pen in Texas, where mostly only drug possession convicts go.
>Were there any special circumstances that indicated he could use writing for harmful purposes?
Oh heavens no. The rules are applied to everyone. And anyone that writes to them is supposed to know that they can only send a limited amount of stamps and paper (rules are very specific), you cannot send them money, and your mail will be intercepted, read, and not necessarily delivered. Exceptions are made for court documents and correspondence with attorneys, but that's about all.
>I would contact Amnesty International.
You think AI has any capability to reform the Texas penal system? Yeah, I'll get right on that.
>How did all these dudes manage to write books in jail then?
They don't. Not in certain state prisons in Texas anyway. Make sure you get Federal time, I guess.
>If by "manual", you mean "manual syncing", then you're wrong; switching to manual doesn't delete anything.
But it does! Sync a bunch of files to the device (which is a labor-intensive process!). Turn it to manual sync. Watch it delete *everything* on the device with no confirmation.
I watched it happen. I watched it happen at the end of the first day that someone got the IPod. I watched as someone spent the entire first day loving Apple, loving the IPod, setting up files. And then I watched in horror as she did one experiment with manual sync, because the docs said that was the way to delete a file from the IPod, and without any warning at all, deleted the entire days' work. I watched that person go from loving Apple to wanting to kill someone. I had to physically restrain her from literally throwing the brand new 60-gig IPod against a brick wall.
Don't tell *me* it doesn't delete files without warning. It does. And it is the worst design I have ever seen, because the presence of those files on the device represents someone elses *work* which they have not given permission to have *deleted*.
I will never buy an IPod because of this. I was thinking about getting a MacBook Pro. That experience made me reconsider. I was ready to buy, and seeing this IPod/ITunes/delete problem, made me hesitate.
They had better find one. The consequences of arresting someone, announcing to the press that he is a murderer, and being wrong about all of it, could be pretty severe.
>You have to keep in mind that jail is meant to be a deterrent. It is really not meant to reform anyone
Opinions vary on that, even among those responsible for the justice system. Some believe that prison should simply be a place where you are relentlessly punished, the more cruel, the better, since it is the only thing that can be extracted from a criminal during the time he is incarcerated. Others believe that prison should have a "correctional" effect. To varying degrees, both theories are implemented.
In all seriousness, one acquaintance of mine that was in prison for a while, was allowed to have only 2 pieces of paper at any given time, which had to be mailed to him, and any more paper would be confiscated. He had to ask for a pen and was only allowed to write while supervised, and had to give the pen back. Anything he wrote was inspected. Letters were subject to approval and censorship, and he did not get to do the envelope part (but did have to supply the stamps, which were also strictly limited.)
>Did she even ask for a continuation? If she just ignored the whole thing, of course she's going to get screwed.
If nothing else, she could make the argument that she was not mentally competent to understand the consequences.
A homeless person that has no job and no prospects, who gets an $11 million judgement against them? That's completely meaningless. Why would a person bother to get a job if 100% of their earnings for many times the remainder of their possible working life is going to be garnished?
>So you're saying Sadam Hussein has a valid slander/libel case against George W. Bush
Hussein is not protected under civil statutes of any US state, and Bush has immunity from any such claims, as President. So no. Hussein has no slander or libel case.
"Yeah, and what about all those poor Linux/BSD/Other users who are using the very old version of SSH that had a security hole?"
If they patched it themselves, or replaced it with some other cryptosystem, their license to use Linux or BSD does not terminate. Here we are talking about an OS that will cease to function, will not be reactivated, cannot be patched, etc., because the end user chooses not to update when and how the vendor wants him to. This is unacceptable.
>He's arrested for killing his wife and this post asks what's the deal with Reiser 4? Classy kdawson, very >classy.
It may be cold blooded, but it is also reasonable from a business perspective to want to know if a product passes the bus test. It is no different from wanting to know, say, the future of EMC if the CEO of that company got arrested for murdering his ex-wife. I know of an insurance adjuster company in Maryland which defaulted on many of its obligations when the President of the company murdered his wife. (He killed her because she burned the Ziti. Seriously. I knew people who were directly involved in the litigation on that one, and it ended several careers as collateral damage.)
They arrested him for murder, notified the press, but they don't actually have a body?
So if they are wrong, what does Reiser get? Does he get to ask for compensation equal to the projected value of the remainder of his career, which this defamation, it could (and should) be argued, has already ruined?
That's presuming he is innocent of course. Which, of course, the law in his country requires the state to presume.
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>If oh-so-wonderful France can run 70% of its energy off nuclear power, then why can't the US?
Well, if you will look at a map, you may be able to determine that the US quite a bit larger than France, for one thing. Could France generate 70% of the electricity needed by Massachussetts?
"In modern nuclear power plants, the control rods are lifted by electric motors against both their own weight and a powerful spring. A SCRAM rapidly (less than four seconds, by test) releases the control rods from those motors and allows their weight and the spring to drive them into the reactor core, thus halting the nuclear reaction as rapidly as possible."
And hopefully they fit smoothly during and after a quake.
"The reactors aboard an aircraft carrier do more than just run the lights, they can push the whole thing at speeds in excess of 40 knots (how much in excess isn't exactly talked about -- but even that is more than fast enough to water ski behind!"
Please tell me you've skied behind a carrier!
"Noting that ball-point pens rely on gravity in order to function, the USA spent over 12 million dollars on developing a range of Nitrogen-pressurized ball-point pens which would work in a zero gravity enviroment. The Russians on the other-hand just spent 50 cents on a box of pencils"
In the early Mercury flights, the astronauts used pencils. Very small pieces of graphite posed hazards to safety and to equipment. Besides that, a wooden and graphite pencil is a nice chunk of fuel for a fire in the oxygen-rich atmosphere of a space capsule. An independent developer made the "space pen", with an all-metal casing and ink with a very high flash point. These pens were used throughout the Apollo and STS missions, on the ISS, and are used on all Russian space fights as well.
No "12 million dollars" was ever spent by NASA. Fisher, the developer of the pen, produced them independently, and the cost to NASA was about $3.00 a piece. The product had commercial success among the earthbound public. There's one in my desk drawer as a matter of fact.
>Why is this moderated as a troll?
Partly because it's a fiction that healthy food is difficult to find in the US, as is the implication that healthy food is universal in Europe.
>People's metabolisms differ and for those disposed, it can be very easy to gain weight.
Can you explain why this phenomenon is distributed so thoroughly in the US but not in Europe or Asia?
>Exactly. Anyone who, knowing the damage caused by eating too much (3000+ deaths per day in the US) continues to
>shovel food into their mouth like some sort of grotesque freak has got to be missing a few brain cells.
Okay, so what do *you* shovel the food into?
>Working 80-100 hours a week couldn't possibly be a cause. Not that that sort of thing is, you know, relatively
>common in the industry, or anything.
So, a financial manager in an insurance adjusting firm that works 80 hours a week and travels 25% of the time is somehow superior to a software developer who gets up at 6:30, drives to an office building across town, returns at 5:00 PM, where he begins to work on the side project that he hopes will lead to independence from the company job and into his own business?
The real problem is that these guys end up marrying some woman who has no serious career bundled with some passion for gaining an independent self-driven new career.
It has little to do with the career being "IT."
I have seen the same phenomenon among musicians and cabinet makers.
Marry a scientist. Someone who is genuinely driven by a legitimate research need. Then, instead of the scenario where one spouse is maybe working at some mindless job, unable to understand the other person with a job that drives a genuine passion, you have an equitable situation. One partner is trying to develop something seriously important in the IT world and gain economic freedom, and the other partner is trying to make a breakthrough in understanding the myolin sheath in order to end spinal paralysis. Just an example.
Marry someone who works part time in a bookstore, and you've got a very desperately bored spouse, with no schema by which to possibly understand how someone could have a career that one could actually be sincerely passionate about.
It probably isn't even legally enforceable to deny running as a guest OS on a VM. I would expect them to be forced to specify, very specifically, the platforms which are acceptable, rather than make a general rule against like the VM one.
However, when I use VMWare under Linux, I generally use Windows 2000, in separately configured guest installs that are tuned to specific applications. (I find this to be far better (BETTER!) than running the OS natively on the same system, because I can tweak things to a degree that I would never attempt on a base install.)
The main application where I do run Windows, I run XP/SP2, and I could be persuaded to move to Vista here -- I have a set of hosts that are used for audio production. Because the applications I run are targetted for Windows, and because audio production (especially synthesis) does not generally work under any sort of emulation (not really a compatability problem so much as one of timing) I run Windows. I turn off almost every service. If Vista delivers legitimate improvements for a studio PC, I will adopt it. Now, granted, it will doubtless be my MSDN license version which probably will have lighter restrictions than the OEM version being described in TFA, but this is where and why I am a Windows user.
Please don't point me at linux-sound.com or Agnula. I'm into that stuff too, but it does not yet give me what I would need to move away from Windows (and neither does OSX as yet.)
>But it's the attitude of linux people like you that has held linux back over the years.
Linux has enjoyed some of the most rapid growth of adoption over those years. When do you
reckon it has ever been "held back?"
>you know how ALL OTHER SOFTWARE LICENSES WORK.
Not exactly -- Activation ensures that it breaks eventually.
Anyone who things SPAM is spicy would die if they ever ate NYC hot dog mustard or authentic Cajun food.
They would probably die if they even entered the room with West Indies Flambeau sauce.
I hope the people who make the DVD player software, and the video card makers, and the people who market their PCs as home-theatre devices, all gang up and put the smack down on distributors who use this format.
>Wow, where did it take place
A state pen in Texas, where mostly only drug possession convicts go.
>Were there any special circumstances that indicated he could use writing for harmful purposes?
Oh heavens no. The rules are applied to everyone. And anyone that writes to them is supposed to know that they can only send a limited amount of stamps and paper (rules are very specific), you cannot send them money, and your mail will be intercepted, read, and not necessarily delivered. Exceptions are made for court documents and correspondence with attorneys, but that's about all.
>I would contact Amnesty International.
You think AI has any capability to reform the Texas penal system? Yeah, I'll get right on that.
>How did all these dudes manage to write books in jail then?
They don't. Not in certain state prisons in Texas anyway. Make sure you get Federal time, I guess.
>If by "manual", you mean "manual syncing", then you're wrong; switching to manual doesn't delete anything.
But it does! Sync a bunch of files to the device (which is a labor-intensive process!). Turn it to manual sync. Watch it delete *everything* on the device with no confirmation.
I watched it happen. I watched it happen at the end of the first day that someone got the IPod. I watched as someone spent the entire first day loving Apple, loving the IPod, setting up files. And then I watched in horror as she did one experiment with manual sync, because the docs said that was the way to delete a file from the IPod, and without any warning at all, deleted the entire days' work. I watched that person go from loving Apple to wanting to kill someone. I had to physically restrain her from literally throwing the brand new 60-gig IPod against a brick wall.
Don't tell *me* it doesn't delete files without warning. It does. And it is the worst design I have ever seen, because the presence of those files on the device represents someone elses *work* which they have not given permission to have *deleted*.
I will never buy an IPod because of this. I was thinking about getting a MacBook Pro. That experience made me reconsider. I was ready to buy, and seeing this IPod/ITunes/delete problem, made me hesitate.
>Stop spreading FUD.
So you are saying that I can take SP1 and WPA will not lock me out of it?
>Police don't even have a body yet.
They had better find one. The consequences of arresting someone, announcing to the press that he is a murderer, and being wrong about all of it, could be pretty severe.
>You have to keep in mind that jail is meant to be a deterrent. It is really not meant to reform anyone
Opinions vary on that, even among those responsible for the justice system. Some believe that prison should simply be a place where you are relentlessly punished, the more cruel, the better, since it is the only thing that can be extracted from a criminal during the time he is incarcerated. Others believe that prison should have a "correctional" effect. To varying degrees, both theories are implemented.
>Would you deny pen and paper to a jailed poet?
In all seriousness, one acquaintance of mine that was in prison for a while, was allowed to have only 2 pieces of paper at any given time, which had to be mailed to him, and any more paper would be confiscated. He had to ask for a pen and was only allowed to write while supervised, and had to give the pen back. Anything he wrote was inspected. Letters were subject to approval and censorship, and he did not get to do the envelope part (but did have to supply the stamps, which were also strictly limited.)
>Did she even ask for a continuation? If she just ignored the whole thing, of course she's going to get screwed.
If nothing else, she could make the argument that she was not mentally competent to understand the consequences.
A homeless person that has no job and no prospects, who gets an $11 million judgement against them? That's completely meaningless. Why would a person bother to get a job if 100% of their earnings for many times the remainder of their possible working life is going to be garnished?
>So you're saying Sadam Hussein has a valid slander/libel case against George W. Bush
Hussein is not protected under civil statutes of any US state, and Bush has immunity from any such claims, as President. So no. Hussein has no slander or libel case.
"Yeah, and what about all those poor Linux/BSD/Other users who are using the very old version of SSH that had a security hole?"
If they patched it themselves, or replaced it with some other cryptosystem, their license to use Linux or BSD does not terminate. Here we are talking about an OS that will cease to function, will not be reactivated, cannot be patched, etc., because the end user chooses not to update when and how the vendor wants him to. This is unacceptable.
>He's arrested for killing his wife and this post asks what's the deal with Reiser 4? Classy kdawson, very
>classy.
It may be cold blooded, but it is also reasonable from a business perspective to want to know if a product passes the bus test. It is no different from wanting to know, say, the future of EMC if the CEO of that company got arrested for murdering his ex-wife. I know of an insurance adjuster company in Maryland which defaulted on many of its obligations when the President of the company murdered his wife. (He killed her because she burned the Ziti. Seriously. I knew people who were directly involved in the litigation on that one, and it ended several careers as collateral damage.)
>Is their a reason why he can't continue working on this project from jail?
Maybe difficult if he has to work in a machine shop or a rock quarry 19 hours a day, or if he's not allowed to have paper (let alone computer stuff.)
Little early to speculate on this. As far as I know, to convict someone of murder, it is actually a requirement to at least have a dead person.
They arrested him for murder, notified the press, but they don't actually have a body?
So if they are wrong, what does Reiser get? Does he get to ask for compensation equal to the projected value of the remainder of his career, which this defamation, it could (and should) be argued, has already ruined?
That's presuming he is innocent of course. Which, of course, the law in his country requires the state to presume.